Linux Noob super easy question

[Norman_the_Owl]

I'm installing linux on a PPC Powermac G5. The hard drive is an old 80GB sata drive from 2004.

It's gotten to the point where it's actually installing onto the hard drive, and the screen is on, but black, and the cursor is on the screen. Is this normal?

It's lubuntu 14.04 for PPC processors.

Also it's been quite a while and the hard drive is definitely moving. Is it possible that the drive is just super slow and that it's formatting, installing, etc? It is an 11 year old drive running off a Sata 1.5gb/s motherboard port.

 

I'm not asking for troubleshooting, i'm just asking; Is it normal for a drive to be that slow? I'm used to SSDs

[STRMfrmXMN]

I'm installing linux on a PPC Powermac G5. The hard drive is an old 80GB sata drive from 2004.

It's gotten to the point where it's actually installing onto the hard drive, and the screen is on, but black, and the cursor is on the screen. Is this normal?

It's lubuntu 14.04 for PPC processors.

Also it's been quite a while and the hard drive is definitely moving. Is it possible that the drive is just super slow and that it's formatting, installing, etc? It is an 11 year old drive running off a Sata 1.5gb/s motherboard port.

 

I'm not asking for troubleshooting, i'm just asking; Is it normal for a drive to be that slow? I'm used to SSDs

Took me about an hour to install OSX on my old SATA 1 120 GB HDD in my iMac G5 with a single-core.

Also, you should mark solved if this went through already.